Very cool new commentary by Killen et al in JEB advocating for incorporating more realistic social environments into comparative physiology research!

Shaun Killen@shaunkillen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We face two potential missteps in ecophysiology: 1) measuring animals under socially unrealistic conditions & 2) extrapolating results to nature, where social dynamics alter trait expression, plasticity, & evolutionary outcomes. Our new commentary in @jexpbiol.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Really happy to share a super cool paper with my former grad student @tblanchard.bsky.social where we show that thermal performance curves for developing fish generated at constant temperatures don’t always allow you to predict how embryos will respond to fluctuating temperatures

Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Read the full research @tblanchard.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Excited to share another paper from work I did during my PhD with @trishschulte.bsky.social and @madisonearhart.bsky.social. We looked at how fish embryos respond differently to constant and fluctuating temperatures! 🐟

Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Atlantic killifish are robust little fish, but now @tblanchard.bsky.social & co reveal that fluctuating temperatures while the embryos are developing in the egg can have beneficial and damaging consequences journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

New paper out in #ES&T where we show that killifish exposure to crude oil has impacts (on embryo/larval development and transcriptome) that propagate to their offspring and to their grand-offspring. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @acs.org

Speaker spotlight! @trishschulte.bsky.social studies how fishes' physiology, biochemistry & genetics adapt to challenging environmental conditions, like high temperature. Hear from her at our symposium on 20 November. Online & in person tickets available.

Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal resilience in a rapidly changing world

Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience

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i was recently interviewed by @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social about my phd, science, art, really all things 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🐠🌎 still over the moon i got this award, sometimes i am still reminding myself that i did a phd 🥲 check it out! 👇🏼 blog.csz-scz.ca/2025/06/30/s...

Check out our new perspective on homeostasis and stress! Led by @evoecoalex.bsky.social with me and @cam-g.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-....

A Systems Approach to Homeostasis: What Euryhaline Fish Teach Us About Organismal Stress Responses

Synopsis. Historically, organismal biologists have studied the organism’s response to environmental variation from two complementary perspectives: one has

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we’re so back baby!! an excellent start to the sturgeon field season today :) here’s a 7ft sturgeon being released #sturgeonsaturday everyday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑

Little is known about the mechanisms controlling thermal acclimation in fish. Check out this study exploring possible roles of hormones & skin thermoreception during acclimation in goldsinny wrasse. 🐟 Read it here: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

We are also highlighting Chris Wood, member of @jexpbiol.bsky.social Editorial Advisory Board and one of the journal’s most prolific authors, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

Long line for advance polls in Vancouver for the Canadian Federal election. Maybe a sign for a high turnout. Great to see democracy in action

Congratulations to ConPhys Associate Editor Anne Todgham for being awarded this year's Bidder Lecture by @sebiology.bsky.social 🎉 Praised by the judges for her "commitment to conservation. This is currently vitally important.” Don't miss Anne's talk at SEB 2025 in Antwerp! Tuesday 8/7 17.30

here is the paper link!!! : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This was a team effort 🫶🏼 with @wbuggiii.bsky.social, @biomatt.bsky.social, @trishschulte.bsky.social, and bluesky-less Gary and Ken

Transcriptomic signatures associated with developmental transitions in the gill of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

The developmental transition from the larval to juvenile stage, represents one of the highest periods of mortality for many species of fish. Thus, und…

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So excited to see this paper officially published! 🤩🤩

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · last yr.

Reproductive barriers can evolve despite gene flow. A combination of genomics and behavioural assays shows two mitonuclear incompatibilities originated via ancient hybridization that underlie hybrid inviability in a pair of closely related swordtail fishes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In their Review, Kathleen Gilmour @uottawascience.bsky.social, Carol Best & Suzanne Currie discuss the physiological consequences of social status in fish, using the reactive scope model to explain the differences between dominant and subordinate fish journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

i haven’t done #sturgeonsaturday the past few weeks bc of *everything* but its #internationalwomensday and we should recognize & celebrate incredible women in science! tell us about your research!👩🏻‍🔬 im a conservation physiologist researching the impacts of climate stressors on white sturgeon 🧪🌎